commercialize
verb
com·mer·cial·ize
kə-ˈmər-shə-ˌlīz 
commercialized; commercializing
1
a
: to manage on a business basis for profit
b
: to develop commerce in
2
: to exploit for profit
commercialize Christmas
3
: to debase in quality for more profit
Examples of commercialize in a Sentence
The company hopes to commercialize the drug next year.
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Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
Similarly, my group has established partnerships with leading hospitals and universities to commercialize emerging technologies that address unmet medical needs.
—Evan Renov, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Through this kind of experimentation, the company aims to explore, validate or falsify the theory of quantum consciousness – but also to develop and commercialize practical quantum computing tech along the way that can advance the fields of AI and robotics.
—New Atlas, 27 Apr. 2025
OpenAI, which was created as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab in 2015, has been commercializing products in recent years, most notably its viral ChatGPT chatbot.
—Hayden Field, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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commercialize
verb
com·mer·cial·ize
kə-ˈmər-shə-ˌlīz
commercialized; commercializing
1
: to manage for the sake of making a profit
2
: to use for profit
commercialize Christmas
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